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chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on israel and iran there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible by the way here's what chuck hagel kept repeating throughout the hearing get the united nations behind you get the
chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting...
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secretary of state this week while defense chief nominate chuck hagel was grilled by the senate hagel says military force has the last resort which has attracted admiration and criticism on among american politicians as some are exposed by the washington this fall from finished with its foreign and military campaign who is in charge of the pentagon and president obama was elected in two thousand in a way that you know the same kind of hope to me as it was there with shutting down get more naming these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when the you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what they would be the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety net or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bankers and bullets we already see the. it's coming out of the mainstream media t
secretary of state this week while defense chief nominate chuck hagel was grilled by the senate hagel says military force has the last resort which has attracted admiration and criticism on among american politicians as some are exposed by the washington this fall from finished with its foreign and military campaign who is in charge of the pentagon and president obama was elected in two thousand in a way that you know the same kind of hope to me as it was there with shutting down get more...
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the hearing yesterday with chuck hagel being considered for secretary of defense and you always had this cheerleading of the sanctions as if they are sacrosanct as if they're this amazing policy that have done so many good things for us when in reality if you look at the last ten years of. u.s. policy on iran we haven't actually achieved a whole lot we've done a lot of things in terms of weakening iran's economy and sort of ratcheting up the pressure but iran centrifuges are so still spinning we're on the precipice of a war and now with afghanistan we're facing these really tough questions about can we continue to be enemies with iraq and not engaging with iran while we're trying to leave afghanistan in some sort of stable fashion well i think the other question that remains to be answered is really what do you envision for afghanistan and more importantly what afghanistan in vision is for afghanistan in the future meaning that obviously you know afghanistan asserts that it's going to be completely independent of the u.s. so do is america i guess forcing afghanistan's hand and having the
the hearing yesterday with chuck hagel being considered for secretary of defense and you always had this cheerleading of the sanctions as if they are sacrosanct as if they're this amazing policy that have done so many good things for us when in reality if you look at the last ten years of. u.s. policy on iran we haven't actually achieved a whole lot we've done a lot of things in terms of weakening iran's economy and sort of ratcheting up the pressure but iran centrifuges are so still spinning...
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political establishment is continuing to endorse new chiefs defense secretary nominee chuck hagel was grilled by the senate this week while senator john kerry has been sworn in as u.s. secretary of state kerry took over from hillary clinton and as international studies professor stephen zinn's told r.t. his likely to be a very old school in his approach. as an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not only being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that vote authorizing the war but and not only. making up the stance of tales about massive biological chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear program and delivery systems the livery systems that are going you're going to was clear that that was all wrong that there had no so-called weapons of mass destruction you said you wouldn't vote for the war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible dictator and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapon sometimes mention of course like that criteria there were going to thirty countries with authoritarian regime that i have rather take ability. unconvent
political establishment is continuing to endorse new chiefs defense secretary nominee chuck hagel was grilled by the senate this week while senator john kerry has been sworn in as u.s. secretary of state kerry took over from hillary clinton and as international studies professor stephen zinn's told r.t. his likely to be a very old school in his approach. as an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not only being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that vote...
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criticism of susan rice at the possibility of she would be announced of chuck hagel. that. is this ludicrously unfair of course it is of course is. but that's also part of the reality of living in a political environment so six years on do you think iran is still after a nuclear weapon in your opinion whether the judgment that we made was that. it was a political decision to halt the weaponization portions of its program it continued to fizzle material fizzle material was the pacing element is that the. the time required to go from physical material to what. we did it was shorter than a dime fissile material. but they halted it. for. terminology we used was because of international scrutiny and pressure but that sense it was a political decision it was a matter of a technical problem. or a change in geo political situation they still lived in a tough neighborhood. that they could turn this program back on again at any time and we also said in that release part we weren't sure we would know if they turned it back on a more about intelligence is the intelligence good enough t
criticism of susan rice at the possibility of she would be announced of chuck hagel. that. is this ludicrously unfair of course it is of course is. but that's also part of the reality of living in a political environment so six years on do you think iran is still after a nuclear weapon in your opinion whether the judgment that we made was that. it was a political decision to halt the weaponization portions of its program it continued to fizzle material fizzle material was the pacing element is...